Bridge too far as Blues lack guile of a Giggs

FRUSTRATED at the end of as disappointing first half, Chelsea supporters were provided with relief when they were invited to welcome the player voted the club’s best ever onto the Stamford Bridge pitch at the interval.

Out walked Gianfranco Zola to be greeted by a response that made up of equal parts of adoration and longing.

As the memories flooded back of the Italian’s craft and guile, it was hard to avoid the fact that those were the qualities that divided the teams as Manchester planned their defence of the invaluable away goal scored by Wayne Rooney but indelibly stamped with the mark of Ryan Giggs.